What to buy this week: Silent Hunter 5 or BF Bad Company 2?

[Tamas]

I am torn: Silent Hunter 5 should be awesome, but I am very much in FPS mood and I played a LOT with the BF series.

BTW I read on wargamer (someone tried) that you do not need to be continously online for SH5, just for launch, and if you have no internet connection, your saved games go to your hard drive, and get uploaded when you launch the game the next time.

[Tamas]

Hm that doesnt sound good about SH5:

It is, by default, extremely arcadey. Which I guess is a good thing to get new players.

A lot of crew abilities are things like improving your torpedo's speed and damage (really?) and other things people expect as "skill upgrades" in a game.

Some of the arcade things I really like though, is being able to see where your free camera is in the world.  No more flying off into nowhere! The "plotting contact movement" thing is a little weird. Like, if you have a radio contact and start to plot a course it'll move a little ghost icon of the contact so you can see it's estimated course. I still like to use the old Intercept Plot though.

At first glance it seems a fun, but it's frustratingly different than SH3/4 so forget all you know or mod your keys

[Caliga]

[MadBurgerMaker]

Hm that doesnt sound good about SH5:

It is, by default, extremely arcadey. Which I guess is a good thing to get new players.

A lot of crew abilities are things like improving your torpedo's speed and damage (really?) and other things people expect as "skill upgrades" in a game.

Some of the arcade things I really like though, is being able to see where your free camera is in the world.  No more flying off into nowhere! The "plotting contact movement" thing is a little weird. Like, if you have a radio contact and start to plot a course it'll move a little ghost icon of the contact so you can see it's estimated course. I still like to use the old Intercept Plot though.

At first glance it seems a fun, but it's frustratingly different than SH3/4 so forget all you know or mod your keys

Well that sucks.

[Tamas]

Yeah, made the thread quite pointless.

[Grey Fox]

So, when you do get BC2. Tell us how it is?

[CountDeMoney]

Hm that doesnt sound good about SH5:

Well then, that most likely solves that.

Looks like more TKing is in my future.

[DisturbedPervert]

BTW I read on wargamer (someone tried) that you do not need to be continously online for SH5, just for launch, and if you have no internet connection, your saved games go to your hard drive, and get uploaded when you launch the game the next time.

Storing saved games on the internet?  Fuck that.

[Tamas]

So, when you do get BC2. Tell us how it is?

If you give me a good free US proxy IP, I will buy it in a few hours Otherwise, Thursday or Friday night.

[The Brain]

BFBC2 is made right here in Stockholm. Make of this what you will.

[Syt]

I am torn: Silent Hunter 5 should be awesome, but I am very much in FPS mood and I played a LOT with the BF series.

BTW I read on wargamer (someone tried) that you do not need to be continously online for SH5, just for launch, and if you have no internet connection, your saved games go to your hard drive, and get uploaded when you launch the game the next time.

Have you answered Eric's Slium Infernum invite yet? 

[Tamas]

I am torn: Silent Hunter 5 should be awesome, but I am very much in FPS mood and I played a LOT with the BF series.

BTW I read on wargamer (someone tried) that you do not need to be continously online for SH5, just for launch, and if you have no internet connection, your saved games go to your hard drive, and get uploaded when you launch the game the next time.

Have you answered Eric's Slium Infernum invite yet? 

Will do tonight

[Tamas]

Aaaand the übersophisticated DRM of SH5 has been broken, there is a pirated version out 

In other corporate idiocy news, I have bought BFBC2 off Steam, preloaded it, and now sitting on my comp unplayable until Friday.

All the while not only EA has turned on European servers around the launchtime of the American version, but at least in Hungary, everyone who ordered a physical regular edition was playing it already on said servers yesterday. The Limited Edition guys were not playing only because EA made a delay in getting it to the Hungarian distributor.

Fucking retards.

[DisturbedPervert]

Aaaand the übersophisticated DRM of SH5 has been broken, there is a pirated version out 

Obviously the version to get, even if you buy it, since the real one is hopelessly crippled

[Tamas]

Ok someone please tell me that I can set heading like in the previous Silent Hunters (directly on the heading indicator thingie) and not only by deploying a waypoint on the minimap.

In general, its funky that I have to run from like the bridge to the periscope to aim, but why the hell must the interface be removed from everything submarinish?

And yellow exclamation marks to tell me about my mission? SERIOUSLY?!